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News web part.... working now
Ok, it's actually working now. Links were broken and news wasn't showing up but now it's populating.
First of all, there's default content in there to show what it will look like. The news actually populates off of other pages. So when you add another page, it actually uses that page as a news item and does some intelligent content rollup. We saw that in the previews, didn't we?
There aren't any web part options yet.
- News Headlines is the top picture
- The bottom picture is the News List.
- Clicking on ADD takes you to a new modern web page.
- After adding content to that new page, it becomes a news item.
- Second Newest Item
- Third Newest
- Fourth
- This took me to a page called Home.aspx?news=1 which was basically a blank classic page without content. Perhaps a work in progress.
No web part settings. Note, this is just a plain modern page with a web part
Cool, thanks.
So basically the "Team News" feature is a webpart that aggregates modern site pages chronically from its current site?
Follow up questions:
- whats the news.aspx page for?
- looks like it isn't used, since your url has ?news=1 as a variable value
- btw: this variable is not enabling the news webpart for me, even though I'm on FR :P
- might be, that Microsoft wants to offers users the choice betweeen Home.aspx (quicklinks+activity) and News.aspx (news webpart only) ?
- looks like it isn't used, since your url has ?news=1 as a variable value
- how fast does the news webpart aggregate new pages?
- especially if you not use the news part to click add, but instead go to site pages, and use Add Site.
- does the webpart include sites pages from subsites?
- interesting from an information architectural view
It'll be interesting to see how Microsoft implements corporate or highlighted news. The SharePoint iOS preview s an indicator that Microsoft sees "News" as SitePages created across different Office 365 Groups/SharePoint sites. But there is no such implementation for the web (https://blogs.office.com/2016/09/26/enriching-the-mobile-and-intelligent-intranet-with-team-news-apps-for-android-and-windows-and-more/) yet.
Also, what do I do, if I don't think a page is newsworthy, but rather a fancy documentation of something ?
There's a concept of promotion on the sitepages content type. Guessing they are flipping a flag for news but dont have it in my tenant. Can you confirm?
